But it should serve much to mitigate our condemnation of the queen, that she fell into no greater error, in the imperfect light in which she lived, than was common to the greatest minds in a later and farriper period.
The Florentine statesman has recorded a riper and more deliberate judgment in the treatise, which he intended as a mirror for the rulers of the time.
This certainly was not his character, which might be said to have been formed after a riper period of civilization than the age of chivalry.
Of Hutchinson and Dudley and thousands of their contemporaries the same record held good: "Neither in youth nor riper years could the most fair or enticing woman draw him into unnecessary familiarity or dalliance.
Up from my youth I bore the rage Of all the sons of strife; Oft they assail'd my riper age, But not destroy'd my life.
Remember all thy grace, And lead me in thy truth; Forgive the sins of riper days, And follies of my youth.
He was very fearless in his person; but, in his riper years, not very enterprising.
He did not observe the value of negative education, that is to say, of leaving Nature alone to fill up the gaps which it is her design to deal with at a later and riper date.
No more, in truth, than dolls to Venus paid (The toys of childhood), by the riper maid!
How much lost you in childhood, youth, and riper age!
These weighty motives, January the sage Maturely pondered in his riper age; And charmed with virtuous joys, and sober life, Would try that christian comfort, called a wife.
What sums from these old spouses I could raise, Procured young husbands in my riper days.
His language also was brilliant and rapid, and yet perfectly neat and accurate; but by no means agreeable to men of riper years.
I must first, however, do justice to the memory of two promising youths, who, if they had lived to a riper age, would have acquired the highest reputation for their Eloquence.
These showy kinds of eloquence are agreeable enough in young people; but they are entirely destitute of that gravity and composure which befits a riper age.
In this spirit they were educated; and the lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
At riper years one man devotes himself to one science or art, and another man to another.
Such people are merely Finger Composers--in his riper years Bach used to call them Harpsichord Knights--that is to say, their fingers tell them what to write instead of being instructed by the brain what to play.
In his riper experience he could not tolerate such poverty of workmanship, and cut out these passages remorselessly, without regard for the number and quality of the persons who had approved them in their original state.
The old book has been the best of comrades, "the joy of my youth, the consolation of my riper years.
She had risen just above the horizon of girlhood, and the natural beauty of her character made the beholder content to forget even the promise of her riper years.
The Alps have always been to me what Australia was to the late Mr. Micawber--"the bright dream of my youth, and the fallacious aspiration of my riper years.
Well but for this reason children are confirmed at a riper age.
Why willst thou not prove which is stronger, a fate, which years ago seized upon a mere boy, or the riper will of a man?
The mystery is alike for children and for those of riper years.
He loved him all the same, for nothing is stronger than the ties of childhood taken up again at a riper age.
In his riper years, Franklin sincerely regretted the doubts of his youth and early manhood respecting religion.
It is a restraint upon their evil tendencies that tells well upon their riper years.
I also saw a man of riper years who looked curiously at another image similar to the one that had just moved away.
I watched, with chagrin and horror, the subtle influences of this fiendish work, seeing young women and those of riper experience go down alike under this intoxication of Hell.
Light Dragoons--the playmate of her childhood, and companion of her riper years in the golden days at Vellenaux, in dear old England.
Agnes, and other works, conducted in his riper years.
Neither in youth nor riper years could the most fair or enticing woman draw him into unnecessary familiarity or dalliance.
Yet his worst sin was probably nothing more than an enjoyment of the natural buoyancy of youth, and a want of the deeper earnestness which comes with riper years.
His earlier verse, the pamphlets of his riper years, the epics of his age, mark with a singular precision the three great stages in its history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
